sorry this isn't very good A Separate Peace In the novel, A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, there are three different wars. The first war is the war between because Gene is jealous of Finny, the second war is between Gene and Brinker, and the third war is World War 2. Gene is jealous of Finny because Finny always gets away with anything, like wearing a pink shirt. “It was hypnotism. I was beginning to see …showed first 75 words of 787 total…

…showed last 75 words of 787 total…They all gave me the same answer after they saw the medical report on me. The answer was no soap. We can’t use you.” (182). Brinker believes that wars are caused by the follies of one generation or another, Gene decides that wars are caused by "something ignorant in the human heart" (193). These three different wars were about Gene being jealous of Finny, Brinker suspecting that Gene really did make Finny fall, and World War 2.